Crown & the Capitalists, The: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation border Cover illustration: Cambodian children in

Cover illustration: Cambodian children in front of a Buddhist temple used as a killing field during the Khmer Rouge regime

and the stories of his Batak homeland

(earlier with Uppsala University)

he first charted the culture of the private world in these three Southeast Asian countries and together as a region

and the importance of orality and memory in Thai Buddhist epistemology

Crown & the Capitalists, The: The Ethnic Chinese and the Founding of the Thai Nation border Cover illustration: Cambodian children inFor distribution in Thailand only The Kingdom of Thailand, formerly Siam, has successfully transformed itself into a rival modern nation state over the last two centuries, despite competing with much larger imperialist neighbors in Southeast Asia. Recent historiography has placed progressor lack thereoftoward Western style liberal democracy at the center of Thailands narrative, but that underestimates the importance of the colonial context. In